Anandtech also ran the same "Officebench" test software - a packadge that has a spotty record for measuring anything real as far as user interactive tasks go. I know that XP lets me use max and Poser and Photoshop a lot faster than Win2K did - but I think that is subjective as they tweaked the VM system to be more responsiv. But >I< work faster , and that's all I care about :)